spam on license-discuss
Karsten M. Self
kmself at ix.netcom.com
Wed May 9 20:58:16 UTC 2001
on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:54:28PM -0400, Russell Nelson (nelson at crynwr.com) wrote:
> I see that spammers have found license-discuss, sigh. What I am doing
> for other mailing lists which works quite well is to set up the list
> so that the first post from an unrecognized envelope address is
> diverted to my mailbox. Subsequent posts are accepted. The cost of
> this algorithm is that new people's submissions are sometimes delayed.
> Another cost is that from time to time a spammer sends mail twice from
> the same envelope sender. But that only happens once or twice a year.
>
> Any strong opinions one way or another? Replies are set to go only to
> me, so if you want to discuss this on the mailing list, you'll have to
> adjust the headers.
(adjusted)
This has worked quite well on FSB for years. I'm for it.
--
Karsten M. Self <kmself at ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal
http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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